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How To Embed Book Snippets in Your Site

by Tim Stevens on September 7, 2007 at 02:15 PM

Google Lets Scholarly Bloggers Embed Book SnippetsSure, you can embed YouTube Videos in your Web site or blog, but now you'll be able to embed images of scanned books, thanks to Google.

Since 2004, Google Book Search has allowed users to search through thousands of books, many of which can be downloaded in the commonly-used PDF format. Now you can draw a box around a region of text and stick it right into a blog post or Web site, just like we did here with a bit from Hugo's classic 'Toilers of the Sea' (which was down-sized to fit, but you can click here to see the full thing).

Unfortunately, you can only do this with those books that are fully in the public domain, which tend to be those old classics. If you want to spoil the ending of 'Harry Potter' for your readers, you're going to have to wait a few years.

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